[Solved!] Can't See Through Portals?

[Solved!] Can't See Through Portals?

Re: [Solved!] Can't See Through Portals? Posted by Niborius on Wed May 2nd 2012 at 5:40pm
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Posted 2012-05-02 5:40pm
Niborius
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Today I started Portal again, but even when I have the right settings in the options menu, I cannot see through portals. They just appear entirely blue or orange (the effect you see normally when only one portal is available)

I tried some stuff in the video options menu, I tried to play in windowed mode, I updated my video card drivers, but nothing seems to work so far.

Any ideas?

Edit: It worked fine before. A re-install doesn't do the trick either. I tried to verify the game files as well, or defragment the files, but nothing worked so far.

Edit 2: I came up with an idea to change the Direct X mode from 9.0 to 7.0 and now I can see through them just fine! The game doesn't look as nice as before but this is much better.

To change the Direct X level, right click on the steam game you want to change, press properties, and go to Set Launch Options. Then write "-dxlevel 70" or any other version you want to have.


Edit 3: I downgraded my Nvidia drivers to version 285.58 and now they are working fine again!
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